DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,409

GENERAL CABLE CORP.
COMMUNICATIONS-DATACOM DIVISION
CASS CITY, MICHIGAN

Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of eligi-
bility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or ap-
propriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on June 11, 2001, in response
to a petition filed by the United Steelworkers of America (USWA),
Local 6222, District 2 on behalf of workers at General Cable Corp,
Communications-Datacom Division, Cass City, Michigan. Workers at
the subject firm were engaged in activities related to the
production of wire and cable (voice/data grade cable, category 1,
3 & 5). Workers at the subject firm were not separately
identifiable by product.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The preponderance in the declines in employment at the subject
plant is related to a shift in production to another affiliated
domestic plant.
The subject firm did not import wire and cable (voice/data
grade cable, category 1, 3 & 5) during the relevant period.
The U.S. Department of Labor conducted a survey of the subject
plants major declining customers regarding their purchases of wire
and cable (voice/data grade cable, category 1, 3 & 5) during the
relevant period. None of the respondents reported importing wire
and cable (voice/data grade cable, category 1, 3 & 5) during the
relevant period.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of General
Cable Corp, Communications-Datacom Division, Cass City, Michigan,
are denied eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance under
Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 30th day of July 2001.


/s/ Linda G. Poole
_____________________________
LINDA G. POOLE
Certifying Officer, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance